Snowball

SnowBall2011 is rolling your way.  Be prepared.  Buy your tickets today at :

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205644

 December 3, 2011 6:30PM

Seattle City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes Room
600 4th Ave
Seattle, WA 98124
Tickets ONLY $20.00 per person

Catered dinner, entertainment, dancing, awards and celebration!

Every year Ingersoll Gender Center throws a big party to bring the community back together to celebrate and review the year, to look forward and to connect with friends old and new.

This year SnowBall2011: The Snowball Effect is all about the amazing momentum building for justice and equality for our communities.  While there is still so much to do, the velocity for change is undeniable and our community is on a roll.

Come join us for good food and friends; stay for the entertainment, schmooze and celebration.  This year we are so excited to be holding SnowBall2011 at the beautiful Seattle City Hall Bertha Knight Landes room in downtown Seattle.  We will be joined by many friends including our gracious host city councilperson Sally Clark.

SnowBall is Ingersoll Gender Center’s annual holiday Bash, this year with special guest Kate Bornstein

Every year Ingersoll Gender Center throws a big party to bring the community back together to celebrate and review the year, and to look forward, and to connect with friends old and new.

This year SnowBall 2010: Double Diamond features our special guest, the always provocative and dangerous Kate Bornstein and our own, the international sensation, DJ Michelle Love.  Come for the good food and friends. Stay for the entertainment, excitement, schmooze and dancing to the beats of Michelle Love. This year we are holding SnowBall at the beautiful and historic Mount Baker Community Club, with food, entertainment, drinks, friends, VIP hob-nobbing, annual awards, and dancing.

The most dangerous ski runs on the mountain are labeled Double Diamond.  Only the most daring, the most courageous point their skis and boards down these slopes.  They aren’t for everyone but the thrill and the reward are unparalleled.  We think it is the perfect metaphor for the spirit of personal and collective challenge we embrace. 

See you all at SnowBall 2010: Double Diamond.

Tickets $25.00 advance.  Buy your tickets at Brown Paper Tickets

Tickets $35.00 at the door.

 Ingersoll Gender Center is a place where transformations often happen.  It’s only proper that it’s annual party should be held in an auspicious location.  This year, the venue for Snowball on December 12, is all new — the glamorous Café Metropolitain at 1701 E. Olive Way on Capitol Hill.   For a mere $9,  you can enjoy the full flavor  of a Parisian café and an in-Seine evening.   (You don’t have to be French to get the last pun, but it helpsJ)

This year, you can stroll the streets of Paris,  bite down on some refreshments, and dance the night away as usual. Snowball has reeled off its annual holiday event at a diverse selection of  venues over the past few decades.    Through the years  Snowball grew from a “need to party” to a primary fundraising activity for Ingersoll. “The first year, we celebrated in the attic of someone’s house,” says Ingersoll founder, Marsha Botzer.

It began as a reason to party. A community forced to keep its head down, challenged to find a reason to celebrate, and driven to change, had few reasons to mark the early setting sun that obliged others to bring out the decorations and the champagne. In the early 1980s, gender identity was as obscure as the idea of sending information from one desktop computer to another. Sure there were those of us closeted in our basement, tapping a 300-baud modem to connect to a large mainframe in Columbus, Ohio, and experience this weird thrill called email. But there were fewer of us who could think of going to a classy formal party dressed as in our dreams. “It was time for everyone to celebrate,” recalls Ingersoll Gender Center founder Marsha Botzer. Celebrate we did. The little party that began in a small attic space, developed into more than a celebration. Snowball, Ingersoll’s annual Gender Gala became the non-profit organization’s primary fund raiser. This year’s party is scheduled for December 12 at the beautiful Metropolitan Café on Capitol Hill. As usual, Snowball features a diversity of entertainment, greeting old friends, and celebration of those who have helped Ingersoll reach its current state of success. Again, this year’s celebration fills a need to celebrate good times when all around us there is challenge. However, in view of the world’s economic situation, ticket prices this year are at a record low level of just $9.